Organization
The Council headquarters is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the Highwoods Office Complex. Occoneechee Council operates three year-round camping properties, available for use by the units and districts of the Council and non-Scouting groups. The Occoneechee Scout Reservation, which includes Camp Durant and Camp Reeves, is a 2,400-acre (9.7 km2) wilderness property in Moore County. Camp Campbell, a primitive camping facility, is located on Kerr Lake in Virginia.
The Council derives its name from the Occaneechi Indian tribe, a band of the Saponi Nation, which lived throughout the North Carolina Piedmont and still maintains a community in Hillsbourough, a town served by the Occoneechee Council.
The twelve counties that comprise the Occoneechee Council are divided into twelve districts. Each district is led by a volunteer District Chairman, a volunteer District Commissioner and a professional District Executive, employed by the Occoneechee Council. The districts of the Occoneechee Council are organized as follows:
- Cape Fear District: Harnett County
- Crosswinds District: Northern Cary, Apex and Morrisville in Wake County
- Great Northern District: Franklin County, Granville County, Vance County, Warren County
- Hemlock District: Garner, Holly Springs and Fuquay-Varina in Wake County
- Impeesa District: Central, North, and West Raleigh in Wake County
- Kia Kima District: Cumberland County
- Mawat District: Durham County
- Moore District: Moore County
- Neuse River District: North and East Raleigh, Knightdale, Wendell, Zebulon, Wake Forest, and Rolesville in Wake County
- Orange District: Orange County
- Three Rivers District: Lee County, Chatham County
- Tuocs District: Fort Bragg in Cumberland County
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